Léon-Germain Pelouse, “Le Hâvre de Carteret (Manche)”, 1878

Léon-Germain Pelouse (1838–1891)
“Le Hâvre de Carteret (Manche)” (also known as “View of the Harbour of Carteret”), 1878

Technical Details & Condition:
Etching with plate tone on cream laid paper with full margins as issued. Printed and published in Paris by the widow (veuve) of Alfred Cadart (active 1875–1882) as plate 23 from the volume, “L'Eau Forte en 1878” (Etching in 1878). This is a superb and near faultless impression that is richly inked and well-printed. The sheet is in near pristine condition, free from tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, or signs of handling.

Dimensions:
• Sheet: 28 x 38.8 cm
• Plate mark: 15.4 x 27.8 cm
• Image borderline: 13.6 x 26.6 cm

Plate Lettering:
• Above the image borderline at right: “23.”
• Within the image borderline at lower right: “[monogram]. Pelouse”
• Below the image borderline: (left) “I. G. Pelouse del. et sc.”; (centre) “LE HÂVRE DE CARTERET (Manche)”; (right) “V^veA.Cadart Edit.Imp. 56 B^ard Haussmann Paris.”

References:
• The British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1915-0105-15-25
• The Rijksmuseum: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200753417

Price & Shipping:
AU$264 (approximately US$177.35 / €150.59 / £131.38), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties and taxes are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this remarkable etching depicting stark and overcast conditions on the shoreline estuary at Barneville-Carteret in Normandy (France)—notably how the small figures and their reflections glinting on the wet sand contrast with the broad expanse of grey sky, giving the scene a poetic and evocative life—please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I am happy to send a PayPal invoice to ensure your purchase is straightforward and secure.

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Léon Germain Pelouse’s drypoint, "La Neige à Cernay", c.1878

Léon Germain Pelouse (1838–1891)

"La Neige à Cernay" (Snow in Cernay), c.1878, after paintings of the same subject by the artist (viz. “January: Cernay, near Rambouillet”, c.1887 [MET, New York]; “A Corner of Cernay in January”, c.1879 [Musée d'Orsay, Paris]), published in 1880 in “L'Illustration nouvelle par une société de peintres-graveurs à l'eau-forte” (Vol. 12, Part 2, ill. 45) by Alfred Cadart (aka A. Veuve Cadart; Vve A. Cadart) (1828–1875) (by descent of the firm to Cadart’s widow) in Paris (see BnF cat. ref.: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb426742044).

Drypoint on cream chine collé (China) on heavy wove paper with full margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 34.5 x 46.9 cm; (plate) 20 x 28 cm; (chine collé) 19.6 x 27.4 cm; (image borderline) 18.9 x 27 cm.

Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (lower left corner) “[entwined initials] LG. Pelouse”.

Numbered and lettered on plate outside the image borderline: (upper right corner) “548.”;

(lower left corner) “Pelouse, pinx, et sc.”; (lower centre) “LA NEIGE À CERNAY.”; (lower right corner) “Vve A. Cadart, Edit, Imp. 56 Bard Haussmann, Paris.”

Condition: Richly inked and well-printed impression with generously wide margins in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds—but there is slight waviness to the paper—abrasions, foxing or significant stains). There are previous collectors’ pencil notations verso.

I am selling this masterfully handled drypoint of a snow-covered landscape—a translation into line of the same composition featured in at least two of the artist’s oil paintings—for the total cost of AU$202 (currently US$131.81/EUR120.26/GBP104.61 at the time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing this stunning drypoint—note how the artist has suggested the build-up of snow on the tree limbs shown on the right and how the cross-hatched velvety-black lines rendering the foreground shadows visually advance towards the eye while the more sparsely laid lines rendering the distant trees  recede—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold